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Calling All Mushroom Pickers - Your Help Needed For Research

 

Anne Lereboullet is a student from the University of Kent in Canterbury. she is enrolled in an MSc of Ethnobotany studying "Knowledge about fungi in the UK".

The aim of the research is to understand who gathers fungi in the UK, what these people know about fungi and how they learnt what they know.

More generally, she hopes to contribute to assess environmental knowledge in industrialized countries. The UK is particularly interesting because of two trends: 
1) a traditional "mycophobia"
2) a contemporary increase of media coverage of wild food gathering.

PLEASE HELP - COMPLETE HER QUESTIONNAIRE

She has created a questionnaire to be completed by fungi gatherers . Anyone of British nationality and over 18 years old, who has been gathering any kind of fungi at least once in his/her life can participate.


It is a Word document and all answers are anonymous and will be used by me only for academic purposes.

1) have been gathering mushrooms at least once in their lives, even if not alone, even if not "edible" mushrooms
2) have British nationality and live in the UK (or at least grew up in the UK)
3) are over 18 years old

To Contribute simply email: mushrooms.study@googlemail.com, and you will get sent a questionnaire


PS: If some gatherers live in in the Canterbury area, I would be very happy to meet them!


 
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Posted By,  Shaida Van Helfteren on May 29,2010
 
A few days ago I found a pingball like, smooth white truffle, which has a brown/ black centre. It is kept in the fridge. I do not know if it is edible. I live in North Wales
Posted By,  geoff on September 3,2010
 
It's an Earthballl. Completely inedible.
Posted By,  john sztucki on September 15,2010
 
i been picking ceps and orange birch for years in south wales near merthyr tydfil in mixed woodland where lot of birch trees and some oak,this year best in many years having had good baskets since 3rd week of july
Posted By,  rosie goddard on October 10,2010
 
I have come across a hard black fungi growing on a tree trunk in my garden. Could it be the dog ear mushroom? I did pick it and soaked it in water for a while and it did swell, soften and resemble a dogs ear.
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